What is "thighbones"

Usage examples of "thighbones".

Here, the third face of the funeral chapel held a statue of the Sister in all her majesty as Queen of the Underworld: snake-headed scepter, skirt of thighbones, and necklace of human skulls.

Beaten with thighbones, the water drum gave out a resonant rataplan which echoed from the mountains invisible across the lake.

He stood bent, pretending to be an old man, leaning for support on two glistening thighbones, the only other parts of the xochimíqui's body utilized in the ceremony.

He danced down the pyramid stairs and capered maniacally about the plaza, flourishing the slimy thighbones and using them to give a tap of blessing to everyone who could press close enough.

They were trying to measure with their eyes the significant curvature of his thighbones, trying to get close enough to hear if he breathed with the characteristic snuffling noise, or to see if his incisor teeth had the telltale notches.

The fat-wrapped thighbones of the stag Van, Geroge, and Tharma had killed smoked on the altar.

The head of the Elabonian pantheon had swallowed up the savor of any number of fat-wrapped thighbones over the years.

The walls were made of petrified thighbones, each of them the diameter of a fruit tree's trunk.